Akihabara / 秋葉原

Akihabara situates in central Tokyo,
and known for its many shops along the streets selling electronic device / Electric Town.
They offer everything from the newest computers, cameras, televisions, i-phones to electronic parts.
Chain store such as Sofmap and Laox are along the main roads,
and Yodobashi Camera complex is on the east side of the Akihabara Station.
In addition, also known as the Holy Land of the geek / OTAKU.
Enthusiastic fans gathered from all over the world.

Geek Holy Land / OTAKU

Akihabara is also famous as a center of Japanese otaku,
meaning a nerd of anime culture in Japanese.
Maid cafes where waitresses dress up and act like maids
or anime characters are popular even among the foreign tourists.

The Akihabara Crossfield complex consists of the Akihabara Dai Building and the UDX building.
The second floor of the UDX Building houses the Akiba Info Center
and the fourth floor is home to the Tokyo Anime Center.

AKB48 Cafe and shop is very close to Akihabara station. Akihabara48 Thheater is,
Don Quijote Building 8F, opposite of UDX Building.
The location is memorable for AKB48 group.
It began from this theater with the concept to say
" Girls Idol that you can meet if you go there. " on December 8, 2005.
From the JR electric town exit,
you can see Radio Kaikan Building.
In 5th floor of this building, Kaiyodo gallery “ Hobby Lobby Tokyo “ is famous.
This shop is the Japan's only retail shop of the model manufacturer.
Many elaborated figurines from popular characters to Buddhist statues, can be found here.

Traditional Japanese buckwheat noodle Restaurants

In the south, There are two Japanese soba restaurants that I want to guide you.

Kanda Yabu Soba / 藪蕎麦 ( http://www.yabusoba.net ),
located 2-10, Kanda-awaji-cho, Chiyoda-ku.
As a representative of the Kanda,
they have long history and keep the atmosphere of Japanese traditional style.
They reopened in October 2014.

Kanda Matsuya / 神田まつや ( http://kanda-matsuya.jp ),
located 1-13, Suda-cho, Chiyoda-ku.
It is possible to feel the folksy atmosphere
and the history of this restaurant through its founding style.
Delicious, and atmosphere development that feel so relax can be great.
Noodle is, it is all hand-made without resorting to the machine.

Second-hand Books Area

There are about 200 second-hand book stores with a total storage of more than 10 million books west side of Kanda area.
In addition to this,
There are many sporting goods stores,
particularly, you can find good equipments for skiing and snowboarding.

In the west of Akihabara, there is a famous shrine / Kandamyojin,
shinto shrine built in 730, which is located 2-16-2, Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku.

In the " Battle of Sekigahara ",
Edo Shogunate's first Shogun Ieyasu TOKUGAWA was subjected to victory prayer.
At the time of extension of the 1616 Edo Castle,
Kandamyoujin was moved to its current location.

After passing through the gateway, a large green-colored Torii / 鳥居,
and climbing the approach,
the vermillion-lacquered main hall appears in front of you.
That is a spectacular sight. It's like a different world.
Total patron of this shrine are 108 town council
( Kanda, Nihonbashi, Akihabara, Otemachi, Marunouchi, etc.).
" Daikoku / 大黒 ", " Ebisu / 恵比須 " and " Masakado TAIRA / 平 将門 :
greatest and legendary reader of samurai family ",
mainly they are enshrined.
They are three pillars ( Deities /Japanese God / Kami / 神 ) of this shrine.
People believe that they will bring luck in business and family,
find a future spouse, protect from bad luck and competition.
As " Edo total tutelar / 江戸総鎮守 " through the Edo period,
it had been received a los of reverence from the Shogunate family and Edo people.

In 2015,
the Kanda Festival was held as a large festival to commemorate the sitting 400 years.
Originally celebrated the victory in the " Battle of Sekigahara ",
was said to have been popularized as a festival of the Tokugawa family luck.
In the Edo period,
it was one of the only three festival that parades had been allowed to enter inside the Edo Castle
and referred to as " Tenka Maturi / 天下祭り ".

Tokyo station Marunouchi side (Header picture)

It is a terminal station which should also be called the front door of Tokyo.
It is the starting point of the Shinkansen bullet train,
and it is the biggest base in the Shinkansen network nationwide.
The red brick Marunouchi entrance station building was designed by Kingo TATSUNO,
was completed in 1914, and was designated as an important cultural property of the country in 2003.

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